The academy was an experimental one. They accepted older students, a tradition which began with the local Tarasin. Eventually they accepted adults to begin training as Jedi, although those they accepted were carefully screened. The Almas Academy could never accept an applicant that had already been rejected at another academy.[2]

While the Council was charged with overseeing Jedi affairs in the Cularin system, their teaching regimen was subject to scrutiny by the Council of First Knowledge and their policies were overseen by the Jedi High Council on Coruscant. An annual sanction by the High Council ensured that students were receiving approved training, and instructors from Coruscant were often appointed.[2]

When the Confederacy of Independent Systems and the Republic went to war, many members of the Council rebuffed attempts by Coruscant to gather Almas Jedi to fight in the Clone Wars. While many invoked the Right of Denial, Master Darrus Jeht of Coruscant was able to send many Knights and Padawans off planet to be reassigned. Staying behind on the world to teach, Jeht joined the Council and attempted to ease tension with Coruscant.

Shortly before the end of the war, a CIS fleet appeared in Almas' orbit and bombarded the planet from orbit. The Council, and most of its members, had been routed and destroyed.

The Almas Council was composed of seven members, five head instructors, a Coruscant emissary and the Academy Headmaster. Meeting in a torch-lit, stone chamber at the heart of the academy, the Council met annually to discuss curriculum, teaching methods, and the knighting of students. The members met around a long table, with a seat at one end for the headmaster, and one at the other for the Coruscant emissary.[1]